Top 25: What corporate America is reading – November 2017

800-CEO-READ, a leading direct supplier of book-based resources compiles a monthly list of best-selling business books based on purchases by its corporate customers nationwide. Here are the best sellers for November 2017, plus descriptions of the Top 10.

1. "Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul" by Shawn Askinosie and Lawren Askinosie, Tarcherperigee

2. "T Is for Transformation: A 7-Step Program for Digging Deeper, Feeling Stronger, and Living Smarter" by Shaun T, Rodale Books

21. "The New Alpha: Join the Rising Movement of Influencers and Changemakers Who Are Redefining Leadership" by Danielle Harlan, McGraw-Hill Education

22. "Own Your Glow: A Soulful Guide to Luminous Living and Crowning the Queen Within" by Latham Thomas, Hay House

23. "The Social Organism: A Radical Understanding of Social Media to Transform Your Business and Life" by Oliver Luckett and Michael J. Casey, Hachette Books

24. "A Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug: The Working Woman's Guide to Overthrowing the Patriarchy" by Sarah Lacy, HarperBusiness

25. "The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World" by Scott Hartley, Houghton Mifflin

Descriptions of the top 10

1. "Meaningful Work: A Quest to Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul" by Shawn Askinosie and Lawren Askinosie, Tarcherperigee

The founder and CEO of Askinosie Chocolate, an award-winning craft chocolate factory, shows readers how he discovered the secret to purposeful work and business – and how we can too, no matter what work we do.

2. "T Is for Transformation: A 7-Step Program for Digging Deeper, Feeling Stronger, and Living Smarter" by Shaun T, Rodale Books

T is for Transformation is a motivational master class as Shaun shows you how to become more flexible and resourceful, give everything you've got, and, most importantly, trust and believe in your path to success.

A practical guide for anyone looking to create a competitive advantage in any size and type of organization by building effective relationships–from the performance improvement experts at FranklinCovey.

4. "Who Do You Think You Are?: Three Crucial Conversations for Coaching Teens to College and Career Success" by Stephen M. Smith and Shaun Fanning, Wiley

Adults know that success in life comes from plenty of hard work and thorough preparation–but for kids in middle and high school, that lesson is just now beginning to hit home. Who Do You Think You Are? helps you guide them through the transition successfully, so they can come out the other side exactly where they want to be.

5. "The Mood Elevator: Take Charge of Your Feelings, Become a Better You" by Larry E. Senn, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

In this very practical guide, Larry Senn provides an operating manual to keep you out of the emotional basement. He shows how to interrupt negative thought patterns that keep you stuck on a lower floor–depressed, stressed, anxious, judgmental–and move higher by cultivating mental attitudes like curiosity and gratitude.

6. "Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter" by Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler, Harper

Fascinating, engaging, funny, and essential, Dollars and Sense provides the practical tools we need to understand and improve our financial choices, save and spend smarter, and ultimately live better.

BE FIERCE is a cultural movement and a motivating testament to what we can accomplish if we collectively decide to become warriors in the path for a better future. The time is now. Take back your life, your career, and your dignity.

8. "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance" by Angela Duckworth, Scribner Book Company

Through interviews with some of the world's highest achievers to historical anecdotes to insights gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance, Duckworth reveals that the ability to persevere is perhaps the greatest talent of all.

9."Who Can You Trust?: How Technology Brought Us Together and Why It Might Drive Us Apart" by Rachel Botsman, PublicAffairs

In this revolutionary book, world-renowned trust expert Rachel Botsman reveals that we are at the tipping point of one of the biggest social transformations in human history–with fundamental consequences for everyone.

10. "Girls Who Code: Learn to Code and Change the World" by Reshma Saujani, Viking Books for Young Readers

Whether you're a girl who's never coded before, a girl who codes, or a parent raising one, this entertaining book, printed in bold two-color and featuring art on every page, will have you itching to create your own apps, games, and robots to make the world a better place.

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